Inside Beirut’s largest football stadium, the chants and thunder of matchday crowds have been replaced by the quiet shuffle of hundreds of displaced families trying to sleep on thin mattresses spread across cold concrete.
Plastic bags filled with hastily packed belongings sit beside blankets and baby bottles.
Children drift between sleep and restlessness while parents scroll through their phones, searching for news from the homes they abandoned as airstrikes intensified.
The stadium, once a symbol of sport and celebration, has become a temporary refuge in a country once again pulled into war.
A stadium transformed by war
